What’s the fun in having a kid if you don’t take embarrassing photos of them to later taunt them with?

Presenting Kingston’s poopy face:

This is when we know he means serious business.

Sunday we had the chance to visit our friends Chris and Heather and meet their new little boy. Hartz was born just 10 days after Kingston so it was the first chance we had to show off each of our babies. We had fun talking labor stories and the adventures of being new parents, over a tasty lunch of curry chicken salad. Hartz is a cutie with a full head of hair. Jeremy was jealous and wanted to take some of it for Kingston’s head.

It was so great to see them and catch up. I’m looking forward to seeing them again and the play dates in our future.

Congrats to Arthur (Jen’s brother) and Stephanie for the birth of their son (Kingston’s cousin) Mason Avery Kasas Boothe this morning at around 1:10am! He weighed in at 8lbs 3oz and was 21in long. We’ll have more details and pictures when we get to meet him later on today and hear their birth story.

We like to mess with Kingston a little bit by blowing in his face, for no good reason except his reaction makes us laugh. For some reason when you blow in his face he sticks out his tongue, not sure what that’s all about. Is he trying to taste the air?

(We’ve also found that if he’s in the middle of a meltdown, you can lightly blow in his face and he’s a calm baby once again.)

Saturday afternoon we left Kingston with Grandma and we hit the town for our first date night since his arrival. First on the agenda was a movie matinee. I honestly think it’s been a year since I’ve been to the movies and since my parents gave me a gift certificate to AMC for my birthday, we took this opportunity to see Inception. I’m not sure I understood everything that happened, but I really enjoyed it, even finding myself on the edge of my seat during a few scenes.

After the movie we decided we would try out a sushi joint in town that was having a 50% off everything deal for their 2nd anniversary. I’m not sure why we continue to deviate from our favorite place, Amura (Lake Mary) , because we are always disappointed by comparison.

Our rolls at Samurai Sushi were good, but so not worth the 2 hr wait for them. After an hour and 15 minutes of waiting we asked the waiter how much longer because my stomach was eating itself and I was getting cranky. When he told us another 15 to 20 minutes, Jeremy told him he needed to bring us something free to eat right away.

So we had salad and soup on the house while our waiter apologized for the long wait. He explained that they were just so swamped because of the 50% off deal. Which would be understandable if we had seen sushi come out of the kitchen on a regular basis. However, what we did see was that more than half the restaurant was waiting on sushi for as long as we were and the people that had come in after us who were told it would be a 20 minute wait were still sitting at the bar over an hour later. So an hour and 40 minutes from being seated we finally had our 4 rolls.

I think we would have enjoyed the extra “alone” time more had we not spend the last 40 minutes staring at the sushi bar willing the next plate to be ours. I get that it was extra busy, but how long does it normally take to get sushi there? Even half the time we spent waiting seems a little long. Nothing ever beats the tastiness and speed of our Amura’s.

We had a nice time out though and hope to make our date nights a little more often than every 2 months : )

My company had their second annual company picnic at my boss’ house on Saturday afternoon, August 7th. We stopped by for a couple hours to see everyone and play on the toys. The weather was crummy, but in between thunderstorms we still got to play on the jet ski and Kingston met some new people.

I mentioned that we’ve noticed Kingston prefers looking left and has more flexibility on that side. During our appointment at the chiropractor on Wednesday we had Dr. Erin take a look to see if something had been knocked out of place during my long pushing phase of labor. Kingston slept through the whole thing as she checked him over and made some tiny adjustments to his little neck and spine. Looks like we are making the chiropractor a family affair as we work towards getting everyone in top form : )

Last Monday we made another visit to the chiropractor. While there we went over the results from my pelvic x-ray. It doesn’t appear that birth knocked me too far out of wack, my right hip is a little higher than my left and the tip of my tailbone is sticking out a little bit farther than it should. Nothing a few adjustments can’t get back inline. What did show up on the x-ray that is concerning is that you can see where my hips are in the beginning stages of deteriorating. Yikes! This is alarming. I’m too young to be showing these signs, on top of that both my dad and his mom have had hip replacement surgery. I am not looking to join them on this trend. Dr. Erin suggested some supplements which I will start taking soon, but I wanted to know what foods I should also incorporate in my diet to help. I was shocked when she said pineapple. I’m a big believer in that when you crave a certain food (I’m talking fruits and veggies here, not that big slice of chocolate cake) your body is telling you that it needs some nutrient from it that you are lacking. How interesting that I CRAVED pineapple during pregnancy like I might never be able to eat it again. Finally, I know why I wanted to eat it all the time. Now if I could just figure out what my grape juice craving was about. Maybe iron levels?

This is what happens when you fall asleep staring at the fan.

This kid is one noisy sleeper. Sometimes Jeremy and I will just lay in bed and laugh at all the noises he’s making. It’s a wonder we get any sleep at all. (The room is all dark so you can’t see anything in this video. Wanted you to know so that I don’t get comments about only the sound working).

He is developing a pretty good sleep habit, sleeping for 6 to 7 hours during the night before waking. A couple nights he has slept for 8! Now I just have to work on going to bed at the same time so I’m getting that much sleep : )

We spent some time with my family Friday night, Aug. 6th, celebrating my dad’s 61st birthday. We got take out from Olive Garden and enjoyed dinner at my grandparents’ house (grandma just had gallbladder surgery and is still recovering).

Happy Birthday Dad!

Friday afternoon, Kingston had his two month check up at the pediatrician’s. Things are looking good, he’s growing great. He’s 11 lbs. and 1.5 oz., 23 inches long, and his head is 15 1/2″. That means he’s gained 2 lbs. in the past month, this kid is chugging it. If you’ll remember at his 2 week appointment they freaked out because they didn’t think he was gaining enough, now at this appointment the Dr. asked Kingston if I was overfeeding him. Good grief, can’t I get a break here? His current measurements put him in the 50th percentile for all categories and the Dr. is estimating he’ll grow to be at least 6 ft. tall. Guess we’ll see if he’s right in about 15 years. And if my general theory that the oldest are always shorter than the rest of the kids, our other children will be giants ; )

This is also an appointment you typically get shots at. We’ve decided for now to at least delay them until we can do more research and he’s a little older. We don’t think the Hep B shot is necessary and although Dr. Rich promotes the importance of vaccines, he agrees the Hep B is the least important. He is also open to whatever we decide, should it be no vaccines or vaccines at a schedule we create.

Our next appointment will be his 4 month check up, unless we decide to go in for some shots in between.

It’s been two months! Incredible. He already doesn’t feel like a tiny baby to me anymore. He is seeing better and loves staring at fans and bright colors. He is however bored with staring at Mom and Dad, if we put our faces in front of his line of sight he will contort his head whichever way he needs to, to see around us. He prefers looking left over looking right, does that mean he’s going to be of the creative sort?

He continues to smile in his sleep and recently we’ve gotten a couple smiles throughout the day, occasionally when we ask.

He likes to kick his legs a lot which makes me think he might have started training for the Tour de France. He wants to get a head start on his competition. Kingston asks - “When did you start training?” Destined Loser replies - “When I was 10, how about you?” Kingston - “When I was 2 months, you’re going down sucker.”

He’s getting bigger and finally fits in his 0 - 3 month old clothes. He’s not a great eater, but he’s sleeping well so I guess we can’t have everything. At least we’re getting some wear out of all his new clothes.

He is grasping things now and it’s so cute to see him clutch and cuddle his burp cloth as if it were a blanket. He also is grabbing my hair, not as cute : )

Not to be forgotten, we think he might see ghosts (not really). Twice in the past week (once with me and once with Jeremy) we have laid him down to change his diaper and his eyes have popped out of his head and he has let out a blood curtly cry as if he has just been scared out of his mind. It’s the strangest thing and hopefully it doesn’t continue.

He is much more vocal and seems to chime into our conversations with perfect timing. Sometimes we swear it sounds like his noises are actual words. Funny how that happens.

2 months down and too many to count to go!

A top hat, courtesy of Tijuanna Flats sauce cup. Oh the simple things!

Sometimes there’s no time for a full on baby bath. Thus we present: Shower time with dad.